Why call it an election, you might ask, but we were then in the early years of Babangida's political witchcraft, hence his dying need to pacify the campuses by emasculating the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), as well as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), arguably the only organised opposition at the time to the burgeoning military terror. Our suspension was punishment for rallying the students against the obnoxious guidelines, for calling 'on students to boycott' the elections and — of course, they had to add this — 'incit[ing] them to violence and demonstration.'
Gịnị mere e ji kpọọ ntụli aka, i nwere ike ịjụ, mana mgbe ahụ anyị nọ mbido ọtụtụ afọ ọchịchị nchigbu Babangida n' ihi ya ọnwụ ya medara ụlọakwụkwọ dị iche iche obi site n' ịnapụ 'National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), nakwa' Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) ihe ha ji dị ebube, nke dị mgbagha bụ sọ òtù a haziri ahazi maka mbusoagha nyere mmenye ụjọ ndị agha na-etolite etolite. Nkwụsị akwụkwọ anyị bụ ntaramahụhụ maka ịkpọkọta ụmụ akwụkwọ megide usoro jọgburu onwe ya, maka ịkpọ 'ụmụ akwụkwọ ka ha jụ' ntụli aka ná ----eleghị anya, ha gbakwunyere nke a, 'ịkpali ha imesi ike na ngosiputa.